Delays in Sudanese immigration stream unacceptable as genocide rages on

Those trying to bring their family members to Canada to escape the war are doing their part. The government must hold up its end of the deal.

Former justice minister Irwin Cotler speaks about the genocide in Sudan at a Nov. 25 press conference alongside Liberal MP Greg Fergus, left, Green Leader Elizabeth May, Liberal MP Fayçal El-Khoury, and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights’ Yonah Diamond and Mutasim Ali.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY EDITORIAL

December 3, 2025

There was a beleaguered air to former federal justice minister Irwin Cotler when he addressed reporters about the ongoing genocide in Sudan on Parliament Hill on Nov. 25.

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